LOVE THIS HEADLINE! “Islamophobia Rages On In Tennessee”

Too bad it isn’t exactly exactly true. But hey, it’s a good start on the growing nationwide pushback against the Islamization of America.

Mint Press NewsIf you can believe it, two Tennessee state legislators, Sen. Bill Ketron and Rep. Judd Matheny,proposed a bill in the statehouse in 2011 making it illegal to be a Muslim in the state. Not surprisingly, the bill failed. But it was an alarming enough idea – with backing from large circles of Tennessee’s Islamophobic community – to warrant action by Muslims who were coming under increasing persecution in the Volunteer State.

The state was already making national headlines for the wrong reasons. Another bill was passed banning Shariah Law, with broad language in the original form of the bill, which was later tweaked, giving the state’s attorney general powers to prosecute Islamic groupsof potential terrorism charges. There are roughly 65,000 Muslims in Tennessee with around 15 mosques, so the impact of the law was powerful enough to scare worshippers.

A mega mosque in the center of the state, just south of Nashville in town called Murfreesboro with roughly 100,000 people, a traditional town square with a clock tower adorning the county courthouse and an honest-to-goodness Main Street, wanted to move to a new location to accommodate its growing congregation in 2009.

That filmmaker, however did a 180. Documentary filmmaker Eric Allen Bell (below) started out to make a film about the Islamophobes opposing the Murfressboro mosque and ended up agreeing with them.

Bell is a confirmed Leftist that has had a relatively recent conversion to journalism exposing Radical Islam. Bell serves as a glowing example of understanding that Islam is the enemy and this understanding must be shared on all sides of the political spectrum at least here in America.

Leftists and Muslim Apologists in the Tennessee media typically have been doing their best to propagandize the lie that opponents of this Mosque are bigots and Muslim haters. Bell WAS a part of this smear of people that understand that Radical Islam and American Liberty (specifically the US Constitution) are not compatible.

The new mosque, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, finally opened in August 2012 after a heated legal battle by local residents. In the end, it took a federal judge to end the debate and allow the mosque to be built and opened. But the fight isn’t over yet – more on that in a moment.

Enter the American Center for Outreach, founded in 2011 to bring the Muslim voice “to the political stage with the objective of changing the local political debate” and “to inform, educate and empower Muslims to become engaged in society by providing the assistance they need to become productive citizens,” according to its website. Its director, Remziya Suleyman, has worked feverishly since then not just in Tennessee, but across the U.S., in stamping out the intolerance that was infecting some Tennessee communities and on the statehouse floor.

Suleyman, born in Iraqi Kurdistan, said Tennessee is one of the top states in the country where fear of Muslims is most pervasive, as cited in a recentlyreleased report by the Council for American-Islamic Relations(CAIR – Muslim Brotherhood terror-linked front group) called, ‘Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States.’

“We are truly at the frontline of this,” Suleyman, 28, told MintPress by phone on Monday. “It seems Florida and Tennessee are competing, but it seems we are ahead of the game, unfortunately.”

She said groups like the Tennessee Freedom Coalition, the Center for the Study of Political Islam, Act for America’s Tennessee chapter and the Tennessee Eagle Forum are just a few of the groups working to promote the fear of Islam in the state. One individual, Andy Miller, who is CEO of Nashville’s Healthmark Ventures, has personally donated more than $100,000 to support Republican candidates who vocally oppose Islam outright, according to the Council for American-Islamic Relations and the Center for Responsive Politics.

Murfreesboro Residents Still Fighting to Close Mosque

Suleyman said, surprisingly, the Murfreesboro situation is still not done, as local residents are not happy the mosque is open. In fact, the case – originally heard by an appeals court in which a federal judge said the mosque had the right to be built – is potentially headed to the U.S. Supreme Court (after the Tennessee Supreme Court declined to hear the case).

“There are still a handful of people that are trying to have the mosque closed down, saying the county never gave proper notification (on the plans to build the mosque),” she said. “Even though the mosque is up and running, these people are still fighting, and it’s basically wasting taxpayer money. What it boils down to is that they are upset at the county for approving the mosque.”

Suleyman said she remains hopeful. “We’ll know more within the next few weeks if they will hear it,” she said. “I think the appeals court made the right decision. We’re optimistic that the Supreme Court won’t even hear the case – that they’ll let the appeals court decision stand.”

In the meantime, the ACO has a host of other issues to deal. One is a state bill – by many of the same people from Murfreesboro, and the legislators who originally proposed the ban on practicing Islam in Tennessee – to censor education curriculum textbooks, removing references to Muslims entirely.

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Pretty simple Islam teaches all children at a young age, to read and study the Quran, with all of its violent passages. Kill the Jews, kill the Christians, kill the infidels unless they convert to Islam. Ayaan Hirsi Ali perhaps said it best, speaking from personal experience as an ex Muslim “Violence is inherent in Islam”. She has won every debate on the subject is Islam a peaceful religion? She now has death threats on her life for speaking out against Islam, Sharia Law and so called “honor killings”. It is not a religion of peace, but a political ideology. They will never adapt to American culture, but rather want to force their Culture upon America. It is succeeding.. Far too many Mosques now 2500 and counting, have Inmans preaching hate and violence, so its no wonder. Anwar Awlaki was an Inman in Virginia, known terrorist, related to the 9/11 tragedy and Boston bombings along with Ft. Hood massacre. Anwar was killed by a USA drone after being a leader, trainer and fighter for Al qaeda . How many more are hiding behind the closed doors of the Mosques. One is enough in my book. Don’t take my word, do your own reaearch, read the Quran and google “theprojectMuslimBrotherhood” for a real eye opener of thier plan to destroy America from within by stealth jihad. To some extent they are succeeding, they are changing history in textbooks at all levels, including universities . They are being elected to Congress, infiltrated our government and the Oval office. They simply will not stop until they get Sharia law in America. I take them at their word, they want to kill us all unless we convert to Islam. Wake up America get involved. Forget about political correctness

Well I was encouraged that a mosque in the Central African Republic was destroyed after Muslims hacked Christians to death. I can only hope others will see Christians empowered to destroy the heart of Islam — the mosques — all over the world.

Whatever happened to Eric Allen Bell? I respected him greatly for having the courage to go off the reservation WRT pisslam. The Daily Kos has scrubbed all evidence of EAB’s existence as one of their contributors from their islam0nazi propaganda site.

Need some help on this one- I keep having these scary fantasies that violent savages from an evil death cult have poured through a time portal in their millions from the Stone Age, and are now trying to destroy Western civilisation.And what’s worse is that while they lie and threaten their way to supremacy, our government
is actively subsidising and encouraging them. Now obviously all these thoughts , coupled with rising traces of intolerance I find in me, are obviously the ravings of
a sick man. I am therefore desperately worried that these symptoms might be the
precursor to full-blown Islamophobia, so please could anyone recommend a course
of tablets, or a course of action? Thank you.

The question I have for the defenders of Islam is how do they defend the open murdering of Christians in countries where Islam is the dominant political and religious force. Daily, in those countries such as Syria, Egypt and Iran Christians are beaten, burned alive and beheaded by the Muslims who then resort to cannibalism in order to terrorize the remainder of those left alive. Is this what we want for America?

The residents of this county should identify every zoning board member who voted against the well known wishes of the long time residents, and tell them to sell out and move. Have nothing to do with them. have nothing to do with their children. park them in whenever possible. Make their life the living hell that is soon to visit the neighbors of this terrorist training center. Be sure that they hear the muslim yodeling call to bang your head, especially in the morning. A favor for a favor.

The mosque’s are here because, of Obama and his policies! We the People elected and then re-elected him ! We the People refuse to impeach Obama … and make no mistake, Obama IS impeachable! on numerous accounts!

BNI, would you please point out the most prominent states within the context of counter-jihad activity? Which states are more under Muslim control and which are more under counter-jihad control? Which states are somewhat neutral? What about NY?

I have no way to tell. But the 6 or 7 states that have passed anti-sharia legislation lead the pack. New York is an Islamoparadise. Other than Pamela (Atlas), Chris Logan (Logans Warning), and moi, not sure how many are involved in counter jihad. And now we have a new mayor who is a hopeless dhimmi, worse than Bloomberg.

Perhaps I am partially answering my own question but I know that even though Florida failed to pass anti-sharia legislation by a slim margin (2/3 vote required) there is a lot of counter-jihad firepower headquartered there that has strong national influence. ACT!, FFA, United West, CSP, and Usama Dakdok are just a few.

Missouri easily passed anti-sharia legislation but failed to override by ONE vote in the state House, a veto by a Democratic governor doing the bidding of the ACLU and Muslim Brotherhood.

I am just curious about counter-jihad activity in all the states. This battle is a life and death struggle.

Bonni, hang in there. Just imagine what NY would be like without you and your co-counter-jihadists. And yes you have a great national and global influence.

Why does anyone need 65,000 muslims and 15 mosques ANYWHERE in the U.S.? I am tolerant of any other religion on earth, except islam—because it cannot coexist. All it knows is how to subjugate and kill. I would trade every muslim in the U.S. for one Sikh.

A phobia is defined as an irrational fear of something. Being a modern, free-thinking, and rebellious type, my dislike of Islam is rational, so it can not be considered to be Islamophobia. I’m seeking to find a word that more suitably matches my position.

humm, the word is out there and we haven’t been able to find a suitable more accurate substitute that will replace it. We’ve all seen Islamonausea, Islamorealism, but nothing catches on. That’s why I’ve decided to try and make ‘Islamophobia’ a positive word.

The Rutherford Reader has posted an incredible FREE Guide called,” Interfaith Dialogue With Muslims – A Guide in Due Diligence for Non-Muslims. It totally exposes every phony claim Muslims make about the sham they call dialogue.